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Cold boot

  • Alternatively referred to as a cold start, hard boot, and hard start, cold boot is the process of powering on a computer from a powered-off state. For example, when you first turn your computer on after being off for the night you are cold booting the computer.

    How to cold boot a computer that is running?

  • When a computer freezes or gets into a deadlock, it cannot be restarted (warm boot); it needs to be cold booted. However, today's computers are designed to prevent the computer from being mistakenly turned off while it is running.

  • To perform a cold boot on a computer that is running press and hold down the power button. After continuing to hold the power button down, the computer will turn off after a few seconds. Once the computer is off, wait a few seconds before turning the computer back on.

    Cold boot vs. warm boot

  • The opposite of cold booting is warm booting, which is restarting the computer that is on (is warm) without turning it off.


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